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Building Hovercrafts in High School

Building Hovercrafts in High School

Bilde Excellent. Benini, a technology education teacher a rural Parish Hill High School in Chaplin, Conn., thought it sounded like the perfect project to challenge his students with. He found plans to build a standard hovercraft on the Internet and purchased them for his class. “We build our first craft in just over 10 weeks,” he said. “We were never completely sure it was going to work, but we decided we were going to give this our best shot and see what would happen.” Link.

The Art of Science Competition

The Art of Science Competition

42 This spring we asked the Princeton University community to submit imagery produced in the course of research or incorporating tools and concepts from science. The response was overwhelming: more than 200 entries from nearly 100 individuals in 15 departments. We selected 55 of these works to appear in the 2005 Art of Science Exhibition. Here are the winners. Link.

DIY cooling for Data Centers

DIY cooling for Data Centers

P1010024.Thumb You’ve heard of bubble wrap, and the boy in the bubble — now, here’s a datacenter in a bubble. I work for a government agency that, like most, is trying to cut back some costs, and one of those costs is a REAL datacenter. So, we decided to wrap the whole thing in plastic (including two 1.5 ton ACs). The room hovers about 83 degrees, however, the racks in the bubble (ok, more like a termite tent) stay about 10 degree cooler. [via] Mirror, Link.